Patents Assigned to Spring (U.S.A.) Corporation
  • Publication number: 20250146513
    Abstract: A cap bellows assembly seals one end of a bellows provided inside an exterior body of an accumulator, the accumulator including a bottom, a shell, and a port, and includes: a cap body configured to cover an opening of the bellows; and a cap elastic portion provided between the cap body and the port and fixed to the cap body. A bonding surface of the cap body, to which the cap elastic portion is bonded, is subjected to a zinc calcium phosphate treatment, and a hopeite amount on the bonding surface is 4.8% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Naohito Nakano, Daijiro Ohta, Takashi Doi, Tomoya Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 12290726
    Abstract: Provided is a golf shaft, capable of ensuring bending rigidity required for a golf club and providing good hit feeling in a composite shaft with 50 g-130 g. The golf shaft comprises an element tube made of metal, an outer layer made of a fiber reinforced plastic and covering an outer periphery of the element tube over an entire length of the element tube in an axial direction, an adhesive layer interposed between the element tube and the outer layer to bond between the element tube and the outer layer, wherein weight of a whole including the element tube, the outer layer, and the adhesive layer is 50 g-130 g, and weight of the element tube is 50%-90% of the weight of the whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Fujiwara, Akihisa Inoue
  • Patent number: 12291256
    Abstract: A carrier device includes a coupling mechanism for connecting an automatic controlled vehicle to a carriage. The coupling mechanism includes a first roller assembly and a second roller assembly. The first roller assembly includes a first roller and a third roller, provided on a first common shaft. The second roller assembly includes a second roller and a fourth roller, provided on a second common shaft. The first roller and the second roller can enter a gap of the guide rail section in the automatic controlled vehicle. When the lock member moves from the first position to the second position, the lock member is sandwiched between the third roller and the fourth roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Amemiya, Yuta Souda
  • Publication number: 20250135481
    Abstract: A surface treatment jig for performing surface treatment of an exterior body of an accumulator including a bottom, a shell and a port in a state where the surface treatment jig is connected to the exterior body and supports the exterior body includes: a support portion configured to support the accumulator; and a hook portion connected with the support portion. The support portion has a shape tapered near the hook portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro NOZAWA, Tomoya KUROKAWA, Takashi DOI
  • Patent number: 12284731
    Abstract: A heater comprises a folded heater wire, a first insulator provided on the folded heater wire, a metal sheath in contact with a part of the first insulator, a first insulating member arranged in parallel to a part of a first end of the folded heater wire taken out from a first end of the metal sheath, a second insulating member arranged in parallel to a part of the first insulating member and parallel to a part of a second end of the folded heater wire taken out from the first end of the metal sheath, a third insulating member arranged in parallel to a part of the first insulating member and the second insulating member, and bundle the first insulating member and the second insulating member, and a cylindrical member arranged in parallel to a part of the metal sheath and the third insulating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Hanamachi, Arata Tatsumi, Kenji Sekiya, Naoya Aikawa, Masaya Takanashi
  • Patent number: 12282812
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first acquisition section acquiring first pattern data from electronic data, a second acquisition section acquiring second pattern data from a database, and a generation section combining the first pattern data with the second pattern data to generate a two-dimensional code. Further, an information processing system includes a first acquisition section acquiring first pattern data from electronic data and a generation section determining the first pattern data to generate a two-dimensional code including the first pattern data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Tami, Naomi Iida, Shinya Nasubida, Go Kinoshita, Haruhito Suga
  • Patent number: 12275508
    Abstract: A watercraft control system includes a watercraft and a communication device. The communication device includes a communication unit configured to transmit information indicating a location of the communication device to the watercraft. The watercraft includes a communication unit configured to receive the information indicating the location of the communication device and a difference calculation unit configured to calculate a difference between the location of the communication device and a location of the watercraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Shirao, Marino Akita, Takafumi Oshima
  • Publication number: 20250118340
    Abstract: A terminal connection portion for an electronic device includes a first terminal of a wiring portion. The wiring portion includes a base insulating layer, conductors formed on the base insulation layer, a cover layer which covers the conductors, and the first terminal which is formed at an end of each of the conductors and is integral with each of the conductors. The first terminal includes a base portion including a first surface fixed to the base insulation layer along the base insulation layer and a second surface opposite the first surface, a bent portion reversed in a thickness direction of the base portion from an end of the base portion towards the second surface, and an overlapping portion extending from the bent portion in a direction along the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukie YAMADA
  • Patent number: 12270252
    Abstract: The present application relates to a rolling curtain and an assembling method thereof. The rolling curtain includes a roller, a curtain cloth, a lower rod, a motor, a spiral spring device, a first fixed bracket and a second fixed bracket. The spiral spring device further includes a fixed shaft, an outer rotatable frame, a spiral spring and an inserting pin. Pin holes corresponding to each other are provided on the fixed shaft and the outer rotatable frame respectively. The spiral spring is tightened and mounted in the outer rotatable frame. The inserting pin is inserted in the pin holes of the fixed shaft and the outer rotatable frame to fixedly connect the fixed shaft tot the outer rotatable frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: HUNAN QIANYE PRECISION SPRING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaoping Jiang
  • Patent number: 12270035
    Abstract: Described herein is a florigen pathway toolkit that comprises mutations in genes in the florigen pathway in Solanaceae, such as mutations in genes in the florigen pathway in tomatoes, that are useful to quantitatively modulate or adjust the balance of opposing flowering signals to customize and improve shoot architecture and flowering (flowering time) for tomato breeding, particularly for fresh market tomato breeding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    Inventors: Zachary Lippman, Sebastian Soyk, Soon-Ju Park
  • Patent number: 12267375
    Abstract: Methods for synchronizing a client application user interface (UI) state of content of a client application on a client device corresponding with a host application on a host device are presented, the method including: receiving an update on the host application; transmitting a request for remote notification to the client device to synchronize the UI state of content of the client application responsive to receiving the event; displaying a notification corresponding with the request for remote notification on the client device indicating content is available to the client device; selecting the notification; launching the client application on the client device; transmitting a synchronizing request by the client device to the host device; enabling a synchronization mode of the host application; determining a host application UI state; transmitting content data associated with the UI state of the host application to the client device; and displaying the client application UI state based on the content data fro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Spring Design, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Teng, Jack Yuan, Xiao Bin, Richard Li
  • Patent number: 12262905
    Abstract: Provided is a bending structure and a joint function part, capable of ensuring sufficient flexibility and rigidity in an axial direction. The bending structure is provided with an outer coiled part formed of a wire wound in a coiled shape and an inner coiled part formed of a wire wound in a coiled shape and arranged in the outer coiled part, wherein the outer coiled part has a plurality of gaps to distance adjacent coils, and coils of the inner coiled part are provided so as to correspond to the gaps of the outer coiled part and fit between the adjacent coils while being in contact with the adjacent coils of the outer coiled part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Hirata, Shimpei Kurokawa, Yuki Hotoda
  • Publication number: 20250104733
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a suspension includes a load beam having a dimple portion and a flexure having a slider mounting portion. The dimple portion has a convex surface in contact with the slider mounting portion. The slider mounting portion is swingably supported by a gimbal component member. The radius of curvature of the convex surface is less than 0.15 mm. The flexure pitching resistance acting on the contact portion when the slider mounting portion swings in the pitching direction is 0.005 N or less. The phase delay of the slider mounting portion in the pitching direction relative to an undulation of a rotating disk is 200 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao HANYA, Toshiki ANDO
  • Patent number: 12253842
    Abstract: In production management systems, management devices includes a management device of a pre-process which adds a hash value of a production condition information received from a preceding process and a hash value calculated from the production condition information of the pre-process to calculate a first hash value and transmit the production condition information of the pre-process and the first hash value to a management device of a current process, and the management devices includes a management device of a current process which calculates a second hash value from production condition information received, calculates a third hash value obtained by subtracting the second hash value from the first hash value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eijiro Furuta
  • Patent number: 12253134
    Abstract: A coil spring includes a main body spring and an insulator, the insulator is provided with a support groove which extends around a coil axis and into which a lower end portion of the main body spring is fitted, a lower end portion of the main body spring adheres to an inner surface of the support groove, the inner surface of the support groove is provided with a plurality of spacer protrusions which support an outer peripheral surface of a wire rod, the support groove extends in an angle range of 180° or more and 360° or less around the coil axis, and a ratio of a volume of the spacer protrusions occupying a gap between the inner surface of the support groove and the outer peripheral surface of the wire rod at a center portion in the gap in a circumferential direction around the coil axis is larger than that at the other portions in the gap in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taisuke Suwa, Yuichi Shibata, Ippei Kokubun, Tomoya Sugitani
  • Patent number: 12247296
    Abstract: A member for a plasma processing device includes: an aluminum base material; and an oxide film formed on the aluminum base material and having a porous structure, the oxide film including a first oxide film formed on a surface of the aluminum base material, a second oxide film formed on the first oxide film, and a third oxide film formed on the second oxide film, wherein the first oxide film is harder than the second oxide film and the third oxide film, and a hole formed in each of the first oxide film, the second oxide film and the third oxide film is sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: NHK Spring Co., Ltd., IZUMI TECHNO INC.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Hanamachi, Shuhei Morota, Go Takahara, Masaru Takimoto, Hibiki Yokoyama, Hiroshi Mitsuda, Yoshihito Araki, Kengo Ajisawa
  • Publication number: 20250078865
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus of a disk-drive suspension including an actuator mounting portion on which a piezoelectric element is to be mounted. The manufacturing apparatus includes a transport shuttle which holds the disk-drive suspension; a drive mechanism which moves the transport shuttle; an adhesive feeding device which applies an adhesive reactive to ultraviolet rays to the actuator mounting portion; a light-irradiation device which irradiates the applied adhesive with ultraviolet rays to thereby increase a viscosity of the adhesive; an element feeding device which arranges the piezoelectric element on the adhesive the viscosity of which is increased; and a heating device which heats the actuator mounting portion on which the piezoelectric element is arranged, to thereby cure the adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shogo OGAKI
  • Patent number: 12241913
    Abstract: A contact probe includes: a first plunger; a second plunger; and a coil spring provided between the first and second plungers and configured to connect the first and second plungers to each other so as to freely advance and retreat. The first plunger is provided with a groove portion formed on a side surface of the first plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Arai, Kazuya Soma
  • Patent number: 12240362
    Abstract: A seat cushion frame configuring framework of a seat cushion for an occupant of a vehicle to sit on, and including left and right side frames, a cushion pan, and a reinforcement member. The left and right side frames are disposed at left and right side portions of the seat cushion. The cushion pan connects upper end portions of front portions of the left and right side frames together in a seat left-right direction. The reinforcement member includes the left and right reinforcement portions respective affixed to the seat left-right direction sides of the rear end portion of the cushion pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Subaru Corporation
    Inventors: Syunichirou Osa, Hiroki Matsuda, Jun Shirai, Masafumi Takano, Fumito Kitanaka, Kenji Nagumo, Suguru Ishikawa
  • Patent number: D1070643
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: springs Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Harumi Kanayama